Raytheon Company has been awarded a $92,069,954 cost-plus-incentive-fee
contract for the engineering and manufacturing development of the Enterprise
Air Surveillance Radar. EASR will consist of two configuration variants:
Variant 1, a rotating phased array (for amphibious vessels); and Variant
2, a three-face fixed-phased array (for the Ford-class of aircraft carriers).

Close up
view of the island aboard the Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) with the fixed
radar arrays clearly visible. Picture: US Navy

Raytheon will build, integrate and test an EASR engineering
development model (EDM). The base contract begins with design work leading
to preliminary design review, and culminating with system acceptance
of the EDM at the end of testing. This contract includes options which,
if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $723,063,945.

The US Navy expects the new radar system to become operational on the
USS Kennedy (second Ford-class carrier) and the LHA 8 (Third America-class
amphibious assault ship) beginning in 2023 and 2020 respectively.